>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color? >> > >Because that is how the word should be spelled. A more appropriate >question would have been "Why do people in the US omit the all >important "u" from the word colour?" > >It *is* our language, old chap. English I mean. You can think of the >"UK" version, as you put it (ignoring the fact that the UK has many >speakers of Welsh and many variations of Gaelic), as the mother tongue. > >Many similarly themed questions could be pitched in here... > >Why have our transatlantic cousins chosen to bastardise (or bastardize >if you're illiterate) the word "theatre"? > >Why is "utilise" (or "utilize" if the mother tongue isn't your thing) - >surely the ugliest word in the English language, wherever you learned it >- in such widespread use? > > > >And more important than any of the above. Why are you posting such off >topic dross to a linux mailing list when there are many far more >suitable and forums on which to ask? > >***Is it because you're stupid? Probably not. Even the ability to punctuate >a sentence will generally preclude that these days.***
No I'm not stupid...not with the computer subject anyways... > >***Is it because you're trying to get a rise (a yank phrase if ever there >was one) out of the list community? This seems more likely with such a >boring, no-personal-effort-on-your-part question.*** Just a bored teen looking for some fun once and a while...and of course there's always one of you who have to be all uptight about it..... > >I don't need an answer. > Put ***s around the items I replied to and put my reply directly below the items....
